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 The plan for Europe's global navigation satellite system seems to be coming along nicely, as the second satellite was successfully launched on Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 4:16 a.m. local time, with the help of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. The Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE) satellite will be used by...
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 Starting today, Nikon’s COOLPIX family has three more members: the P80, S52 and the S52c. The P80, with a 10.1 megapixel image sensor, features a 18x optical zoom NIKKOR lens. The zoom lens uses Optical Vibration Reduction in order to reduce the blur caused by shaky hands. P80 also comes with a Sport Continuous mode which allows 30...
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 Text messaging has become more and more popular in the last few years. It is estimated that more than 48 billion messages are sent monthly. Baring this in mind, the fact that the government has found a way to employ this widely used service into a security plan isn’t as surprising anymore.On Wednesday, federal regulators approved a plan...
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 On Wednesday IBM released two high-end Power Systems models; one is a water-cooled supercomputer (Power 575), and the other was described by the company as the world’s fastest UNIX server (Power 595). The first has the copper plates that are placed above each processor water-chilled; the mechanism of this cooling system is quite simple,...
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 On Thursday, a critique co-signed by Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, caused quite a stir. The study attempted to show that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off with its assessment of the technology challenge the world is facing.The study referes to the...
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 Having won enough spectrum licenses in the U.S. government's 700MHz auction, both Verizon Wireless and AT&T are getting ready to implement their next generations of high-speed wireless services. Although the companies described their new networks as open, some feel that consumer choice won’t range as widely as expected. The segment...
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 The US Cyber Command (AFCYBER) military unit, which began
preparations for entering the cyberspace fight in September 2007, is getting
ready to start its activity. The project should be fully operational by autumn
and it will be led by U.S. Eighth Air Force Lieutenant general Robert J. Elder
Jr., who is the commander of the Eighth...
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 For the past six months, NASA has experienced some difficulties with the design of its Ares I rocket, more specifically a sound wave vibration problem caused by the rocket motors. This is a very serious problem to have in such a project, as powerful vibrations could endanger the lives of astronauts or, to say the least, could prevent...
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 After two successful rehearsals, the European cargo ship, Jules Verne, flawlessly docked at the International Space Station (ISS) at about 10:40 a.m. This is the first of many automated resupply ships to come that are to make runs back and forth to the ISS. "It was a first for Europe and we achieved it on the first try," ESA...
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 Intel is planning to announce on Wednesday in
Shanghai the launch of a series of devices that are supposed to link
smartphones and laptops, as the company believes that the next big thing in the
gadget world will be the ”Internet in your pocket”.
The new range of wireless Internet devices
will supposedly have a significant...
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